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Re: Will IBM 360 Floppies work in Apple ][ Drives?

Subject: Re: Will IBM 360 Floppies work in Apple ][ Drives?
From: "David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com>
Date: 20 Feb 2007 14:19:14 -0800
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On Feb 21, 7:42 am, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> Actually, the floppy was invented by IBM, back in the early 1970's.
> The first floppes were 8" floppies though, holding some 240 KBytes
> each (8" SSSD = Single Sided Single Density).  After a while double
> density and double sided 8" floppies were introduced.  And still
> later the 5.25" mini-floppy was introduced.

Back in the mid to late 80's we had a couple of Pyramid 90x
minicomputers and they used 5.25" floppy disks to hold their microcode.

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- Will IBM 360 Floppies work in Apple ][ Drives?
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- Re: Will IBM 360 Floppies work in Apple ][ Drives?
  - From: scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)
- Re: Will IBM 360 Floppies work in Apple ][ Drives?
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)

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